TOPIC: Would U Like To Share Ur Thoughts...ALLERGY Of the Body. OBSESSION Of The Mind
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TOPIC: Would U Like To Share Ur Thoughts...ALLERGY Of the Body. OBSESSION Of The Mind
"The explanation that alcoholism was
a disease of a two-fold nature, an
allergy of the body and an obsession
of the mind, cleared up a number of
puzzling questions for me. The allergy
we could do nothing about. Somehow
our bodies had reached the point
where we could no longer absorb
alcohol in our systems. The why
is not important; the fact is that
one drink will set up a reaction in
our system that requires more, that
one drink is too much and a hundred
drinks are not enough."
© 2001 AAWS, Inc., Fourth Edition;
Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 355
Hi Im Sharon and Im an Alcoholic.
By the Grace of my HP and people
like you here in SR I havent found it
necessary to pick up a drink since
8-11-90.
For that and you I am truely
grateful.
In the Chapter It Might Have
Been Wose.....it discuses
about our obsession and allergy
of our disease.....
If u have the 4th edition u
can read further about it and
share ur thoughts if ud like.
I knew during my drinking career
that I could never get enough
alcohol to satify my craving for
it....there wasnt big enough
glasses to hold the amount i
wanted to drink, so i found
plastic stadium cups to help,,,,
Filling it to the brim and never
being able to keep it full.
Boy was i amazed when i finally
recieved the tools and knowledge
of my disease to help me understand
the insanity that came along
with my drinking.....
How unmanageable i was in
handling everything in my life.
Simply powerless.
Today with the help of the
12 steps provided thru Alcoholic
Anonymous It can help remove
any obsession i may still have
with thoughts of drinking.
Like taking medicine for ur
seasonal allergy...i can take
a daily dose of AA to over come
the allergy of the mind associated
with drinking.
Do u have any thoughts on
this topic? Feel free to share
ur ESH with the many New Comers
wanting to understand what they
have wihich is so cunning baffling
and powerful.
Thanks for letting me share.
a disease of a two-fold nature, an
allergy of the body and an obsession
of the mind, cleared up a number of
puzzling questions for me. The allergy
we could do nothing about. Somehow
our bodies had reached the point
where we could no longer absorb
alcohol in our systems. The why
is not important; the fact is that
one drink will set up a reaction in
our system that requires more, that
one drink is too much and a hundred
drinks are not enough."
© 2001 AAWS, Inc., Fourth Edition;
Alcoholics Anonymous, pg. 355
Hi Im Sharon and Im an Alcoholic.
By the Grace of my HP and people
like you here in SR I havent found it
necessary to pick up a drink since
8-11-90.
For that and you I am truely
grateful.
In the Chapter It Might Have
Been Wose.....it discuses
about our obsession and allergy
of our disease.....
If u have the 4th edition u
can read further about it and
share ur thoughts if ud like.
I knew during my drinking career
that I could never get enough
alcohol to satify my craving for
it....there wasnt big enough
glasses to hold the amount i
wanted to drink, so i found
plastic stadium cups to help,,,,
Filling it to the brim and never
being able to keep it full.
Boy was i amazed when i finally
recieved the tools and knowledge
of my disease to help me understand
the insanity that came along
with my drinking.....
How unmanageable i was in
handling everything in my life.
Simply powerless.
Today with the help of the
12 steps provided thru Alcoholic
Anonymous It can help remove
any obsession i may still have
with thoughts of drinking.
Like taking medicine for ur
seasonal allergy...i can take
a daily dose of AA to over come
the allergy of the mind associated
with drinking.
Do u have any thoughts on
this topic? Feel free to share
ur ESH with the many New Comers
wanting to understand what they
have wihich is so cunning baffling
and powerful.
Thanks for letting me share.
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Join Date: Dec 2007
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A A good medicine
being new in recovery, it is good to find an explaination for my obsession.why
was one or two drinks never enough!! more, more i always wanted MORE!!
what happened to me after that first drink? what went on in my body that i couldn't or didn,t want to stop until i was totally plastered.
In the big book i first learned of this allergy,( the doctors opinion ) 4th edition
page xxviii ,reads that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy.that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never occurs in the temperate drinker.
belive me i was never a temperate drinker.
A A has tought me there is on cure for my allergy,BUT!
if i was willing to follow their program and practice (12)
simple suggestions and practice them in all my affairs
i could live without alcohol doing it one day at a time.
GOOD NEWS FOLKS IT WORKS!!
was one or two drinks never enough!! more, more i always wanted MORE!!
what happened to me after that first drink? what went on in my body that i couldn't or didn,t want to stop until i was totally plastered.
In the big book i first learned of this allergy,( the doctors opinion ) 4th edition
page xxviii ,reads that the action of alcohol on these chronic alcoholics is a manifestation of an allergy.that the phenomenon of craving is limited to this class and never occurs in the temperate drinker.
belive me i was never a temperate drinker.
A A has tought me there is on cure for my allergy,BUT!
if i was willing to follow their program and practice (12)
simple suggestions and practice them in all my affairs
i could live without alcohol doing it one day at a time.
GOOD NEWS FOLKS IT WORKS!!
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Posts: 226
Thankyo for taking the time to put this up there aasharon90 this is great stuff. I was happy to wake up to it:bounce
The age old question what’s wrong with me? People would ask me what’s wrong with me as if I knew. I remember being asked why do you drink like you do, and I asked why don’t you drink like I do.
I had a roommate that had kicked me out of the house one morning and that evening I went to AA. I thought I was going crazy and it turned out I was just alcoholic. I couldn’t wait to run home and tell my best friend the one who kicked me out that morning. I said guess what I’m an alcoholic I’m powerless over alcohol my life is unmanageable. My best friend said No S H I T. I thought he was going to be surprised, the only person surprised was me.
I asked some non-alcoholic family members why they don’t drink. They said they don’t like to drink. In the Doctors opinion of the BB it says alcoholics primarily drink because they like the effects produced by alcohol. My family does not like the effects produced by alcohol. They said if I have one two many it makes me feel sick. I said sick; you have to drink past that.
Alcohol changes my perception of reality and I have an abnormal reaction to alcohol. I am not the same as my family. Alcohol changes my perception of reality however it does not do that for the normal person. It doesn’t change them to a duck to an eagle. However I go out have a few drinks as a delicate little duck and I end up an eagle swooping around looking for pray. Alcohol changes my perception of reality. Growing up I had ears the size of an elephant and when I drank my ears go smaller, not only did my ears get smaller yours got bigger. Tina, in my home group says it best she says when she drinks she feels wittier, prettier, and tittier.:ghug
Alcohol changes my perception of reality that’s what alcohol does for me. I came to believe that I have an allergy much like someone who is allergic to fish. What happens to someone that is allergic to fish and has a little taste, they end up in the ER don’t they? What happens when I have a little taste of wine, I can’t stop with one and I end up in the ER.
The age old question what’s wrong with me? People would ask me what’s wrong with me as if I knew. I remember being asked why do you drink like you do, and I asked why don’t you drink like I do.
I had a roommate that had kicked me out of the house one morning and that evening I went to AA. I thought I was going crazy and it turned out I was just alcoholic. I couldn’t wait to run home and tell my best friend the one who kicked me out that morning. I said guess what I’m an alcoholic I’m powerless over alcohol my life is unmanageable. My best friend said No S H I T. I thought he was going to be surprised, the only person surprised was me.
I asked some non-alcoholic family members why they don’t drink. They said they don’t like to drink. In the Doctors opinion of the BB it says alcoholics primarily drink because they like the effects produced by alcohol. My family does not like the effects produced by alcohol. They said if I have one two many it makes me feel sick. I said sick; you have to drink past that.
Alcohol changes my perception of reality and I have an abnormal reaction to alcohol. I am not the same as my family. Alcohol changes my perception of reality however it does not do that for the normal person. It doesn’t change them to a duck to an eagle. However I go out have a few drinks as a delicate little duck and I end up an eagle swooping around looking for pray. Alcohol changes my perception of reality. Growing up I had ears the size of an elephant and when I drank my ears go smaller, not only did my ears get smaller yours got bigger. Tina, in my home group says it best she says when she drinks she feels wittier, prettier, and tittier.:ghug
Alcohol changes my perception of reality that’s what alcohol does for me. I came to believe that I have an allergy much like someone who is allergic to fish. What happens to someone that is allergic to fish and has a little taste, they end up in the ER don’t they? What happens when I have a little taste of wine, I can’t stop with one and I end up in the ER.
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That's why I don't keep up no matter what....becuase I'll
start a crazy chain reaction.
My allergy to alcohol is that my body turns alcohol into acid.
and for some stupid reason I cravs more of it after a drink.
I don't obsess over drinking and using anymore.
I do have obsessive personality thou.
It's a pain in the ass sometimes becuase I'm fully awear I'm obsessing
but i can't stop...not as bad today becuase it's been a while and recovery had help much.
It can be a positive thing if I apply it right, but always a challenge
for me to live a nice balance life. If i obsess..lets say on a project
my boss gives me..It's wierd.
My obsessive personalities stems from unresolves anger or non closure.
That's why I obsessed...i need to resolve it.
That's why my recovery has acceptence as a foundation.
As easy as it might be for some people..it is very difficult
for me...especially when there's not an answer to my problems
or issues. I just have to accept it.
MY complusiveness..stems from escaping.
I guess it could be worst..i don't have it as bad as Howard Huse did.
I have the OCPD...obsessive, complusive, PERSONALITY, disorder....
not OPD...or I'm border line ..i dun no.
start a crazy chain reaction.
My allergy to alcohol is that my body turns alcohol into acid.
and for some stupid reason I cravs more of it after a drink.
I don't obsess over drinking and using anymore.
I do have obsessive personality thou.
It's a pain in the ass sometimes becuase I'm fully awear I'm obsessing
but i can't stop...not as bad today becuase it's been a while and recovery had help much.
It can be a positive thing if I apply it right, but always a challenge
for me to live a nice balance life. If i obsess..lets say on a project
my boss gives me..It's wierd.
My obsessive personalities stems from unresolves anger or non closure.
That's why I obsessed...i need to resolve it.
That's why my recovery has acceptence as a foundation.
As easy as it might be for some people..it is very difficult
for me...especially when there's not an answer to my problems
or issues. I just have to accept it.
MY complusiveness..stems from escaping.
I guess it could be worst..i don't have it as bad as Howard Huse did.
I have the OCPD...obsessive, complusive, PERSONALITY, disorder....
not OPD...or I'm border line ..i dun no.
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